Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dominated by futuristic Pudong—when my own inertia overcomes the thrill of living and working in a country hurtling towards the future and trying to preserve its traditions. As eating chickenfish and visiting rural China taught me, uncomfortable encounters in a foreign culture, even if sometimes incredibly awkward, push you to question what motivates people to live life the way they do. Even if I will never understand what is so appetizing about eating a fish head, staring at one, instead of pizza or fried chicken, is worth more than just a few laughs or a good story...
...handful. The Turks abused the German outside backs all night, often getting into deep positions behind them. Lahm got taken to the cleaners on Turkey's first goal, when Sabri Sarioglu went around him in a drive that ended with a rebound shot from Ugur Boral. His awkward, sweeping attempt fooled Jens Lehmann, and the German keeper fumbled it into...
...often play characters that are so awkward, they make people uncomfortable. Do you ever make yourself uncomfortable? Carrie Coward Bucher TONGANOXIE, KANS...
...hangover. At some point in the middle of our Lucullan outburst, gays willingly - joyously - stopped talking about AIDS. I don't mean it never came up - there were plenty of Angels in America screening parties in 2003 - but an awkward silence descended in the bedroom. Gay men of my generation had never really known AIDS, so it seemed weird to bring it up when you were about to have sex with someone...
...University, Public Health Solutions (a New York-based nonprofit) and a filmmaker named Todd Ahlberg launched a website called hivbigdeal.org. It features two online short films designed to remind gay men that - duh - HIV is still deadly, and that we must talk about it in the bedroom, during those awkward moments before sex. The films are called The Morning After and The Test, and I can't stop thinking about them. A disclaimer: while the shorts are smartly directed, they are poorly acted, and some of the dialogue - which was partly written by public-health officials - sounds stilted and finger...